#falsehood

I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#falsehood #social-weapons #truth #romantic

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. ↗

— Aristophanes

#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#elements #falsehood #first #inaccuracy #kin

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#falsehood #fears #hopes #influenced #judgment

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#falsehood #oil #rise #rise above #truth

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#logic #prior #truth #world

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ↗

— William James

#falsehood #get #live #ready #today

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#errors #falsehoods #filled #knows #mind

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ↗

— William Shenstone

#begins #ends #falsehood #itself #liar